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Standing Liquidity Facilities for Banks and Primary Dealers

RBI/2008-09/242
REF.No.MPD.BC. 305 /07.01.279/2008-09

October 20, 2008


To

All Scheduled Banks [excluding Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)]
and Primary Dealers

Dear Sir/Madam,

Standing Liquidity Facilities for Banks and Primary Dealers

As announced in the Reserve Bank’s Press Release dated October 20, 2008, the fixed repo rate under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) has been reduced by 100 basis points from 9.0 per cent to 8.0 per cent with immediate effect.

2.  Accordingly, the Standing Liquidity Facilities provided to banks (export credit refinance) and Primary Dealers (PDs) (collateralised liquidity support) from the Reserve Bank would be available at the repo rate, i.e., at 8.0 per cent with immediate effect .

Yours faithfully,

(M.D. Patra)
Adviser-in-Charge


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